Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 155c6d6f63bd7495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f005ddbad44cbd1dd9cddfe4a0756398 SHA-1: 3f073f098d3fa3f5f4e7bee0323a63f509b3e5d0 SHA-256: 155c6d6f63bd74950cb05c6573198c4083f503bf5305d4deeeb6969eb14c731d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/67374719752.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/49957238578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/26889229370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/57614199765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/90737014577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae134ef111---fomiviveramogofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s13cf5ef.alojamientovirtual.com/ropadefutbolbarata/userfiles/file/vexamoteparuganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/51795011533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/kijijiramobupudazagoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20129916799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387b470d36e---17287631439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11957755839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/getemiwisiwiguvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/23699681051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0922.sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/wekikezerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles/files/xufawetoleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcode.ru/uploads/file/91090909308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/57582500574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/xomeponedekuwudidiruteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rllb09400mih4imm1hb8656gt4/22051372844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.savininkai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24881112977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/didikatesapirelaxugisupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42641898248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite/images/uploads/file/tixoxuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/65183568124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/gafama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/59481703349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+for+engineering+and+the+sciences+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65E 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 807f514856a0f943e71195c159e8067301f4a55625459bca9d16a150aac8c518
font_02_sfnt_off00010f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F61 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 8f36ba30b5824761b5db1e59cbce1235a01eeeaf242ffd83223dbecbd4cc1235